Earth Week Lectures

Campus organizations present two public lectures among the events for Earth Week, April 18-26 at Knox College.

Clive Hamilton, of Charles Sturt University in Australia, will give a talk, "Growth Fetishism and the Climate Crisis," at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 21 in Ferris Lounge, Seymour Union.

David Kraft, director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service in Chicago, will give a talk, "Nuclear Power Issues," at 4 p.m., Thursday, April 23, in the Francois Classroom E-117, Umbeck Science-Mathematics Center.

Both talks are free and open to the public. The Green Solutions Expo 2009 and other events are listed in the Knox College Events Calendar.

Hamilton is holder of the Vice Chancellor's Chair at Charles Sturt University in new South Wales, Australia, and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics. He is the founder and former executive director of The Australia Institute. His books include "Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change," "Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough," and "The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics."

Kraft co-founded EarthDay 90 in Chicago and has served on the boards of the Environmental Fund of Illinois, Illinois Student Environmental Network, and Earth Share Illinois. He is on the Steering Committee for Climate Justice Chicago. Kraft has contributed to and edited many energy-related papers, including a 2001 report, "Here Today, THERE Tomorrow: Commercial Nuclear Reactors Sites as Terrorist Targets," and the forthcoming report "You Can't Nuke Global Warming: Why Nuclear Power Cannot Mitigate Global Warming Effects."

The lectures and other Earth Week events at Knox are sponsored by the Presidential Task Force on Sustainability and the departments of art, environmental studies, psychology, and theatre; student clubs including KARES, Food for Thought, WVKC, Student Pagan Alliance, Knox Garden Club, Chemistry Club and Human Rights Center; and outside organizations The Center in Galesburg and the Galesburg Environmental Task Force.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 48 countries. Knox's 'Old Main' is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.